230 Description of Mr. Cöoke's' Patent Horse-Hoe.[Oct.

|-» Soils of different texturesz;will require to be hoed with Shares

of different Sizes; nothing but experience can point-out the

| Size wbich is best adapted to any particular zoil: In ail light

' 5andy Soils, or loams, or any other Soils Sufhciently pulverised,

Shares from five to Six inches broad, for nine inch drills, and

eight.inches brdad, for twelve inch drills; will'work safely and

eftectmally. In strovg clays intermixed with pebbles, the hoe

Shares must not be so broad; and it may vot be impossible to

find Some.zuch s5oils! as will bid deidance to all fat hoeing

whatever. If, nevertheless, the texture of the Soil in the Spaces

| of the rows of corn, 1s torn to pieces by long narrow plates of

| iron, resembling points or chissels, being introduced in the hoe

Share Shanks AA AAA A, mstead of the hoe plates, the ad-

vantages resultipg irow Such a process will be very consider-

| able..!;

|„The hoe plates or Shares, may be Set to enter the Soil deeper

| or Shallower, by.lowering or raising the Shanks AAAAAA,

| in the respective mortices in the beam, or by lowering or rais-

| ing the hooks applied to tbe-Shank C C, on the axis of the ) wheels, by which the hoes are drawn.;

Lands cannot be too level on the Surface, for practical, ef- fectual, and expeditious horse-hoeing: but where lands, or ridges, are formed so round, that all the hoe plates cannot.be brought to work at equal depths in the soil at the Same ume, 80 many as cannot be broughtinto use, may be laid aside.

As this method of horse-hoeiwg 1s- perfectly-Dew, It Is rer commended. to take, the horse-hoe with the machime coulters fxed in the hoe-beam, instead of the hoe-Shares, over Several acres of drilled corn; by which means, the person who 15 t&

| attend the horse-boes, will, by Seeking. the goulters in the |

middle of the spaces, become familarized to the method of

influencing tbe direction of hoes, 50 as.to. avoid cutting.up any

ofthe rows of corn.;

| This horse-hoe may be applied to many usefn] purposes,

| besides hoeing crops ot drilled corn, particularly for cutting

up. the. rows ot Stubble as 800n as the crop is carried, with Such

| weeds as might escape the hoe; and for stirring tallows,&c.

„| at the. rate of. ten.acres, 4,.day, with one man and a boy,

|, and two horses, particularly in the busy tine ot harvest, when || |]

' it wonld be impossible to 5pare as many men and horses as EN wauld be required.to tir the land with commou ploughs, So as | 10 answer the intended purpose. And by means of the 5ame expeditious method of cutting up stubbles(in Kent, called I Shimming. and pudding) immediately after the crop is carried, | or rather belpre it is carried, as S00n as it is gut and Set up, In order to gain time for 50wing gras3 Seeds a Second time, where they may have missed, or cole, or rape, or turnip for food of Sheep or cattle in winter or 5prwg, extraordinary advantages maybe derived,.. 4:.